cfp: Lost

The University Press of Lapland (Finland) will publish a book entitled Lost
and Found in Virtual Reality: Women and Information Technology.

As many researchers struggle to give an account of our immersion in
information and communication technology, which resonates with lived
experience, there is an increasing turn to phenomenology as a way to get
back to the actuality of these experiences. As Merleau-Ponty claims in his
famous preface in Phenomenology of Perception: "Phenomenology is a study of
essences ... But phenomenology is also a philosophy which puts essences back
into existence, and does not except to arrive at an understanding of man and
the world from any starting point other than of their 'facticity.'" It is
with this challenge in mind that Lost and Found in Virtual reality: Women
and Information Technology sees its task.

Contributors are sought for the above book (due for publication in spring
2005) which aims to analyse how women construct their identities and
expertise when using information and communication technology. The monograph
will aim to develop and explore not only phenomenological analysis and
accounts but also a wide range of other approaches to the making of
identity, such as cognition, constructivism, and consciousness studies, of
phenomena such as (but not limited
to):
    - Women, media, mediating and mediation
    - Women, collaboration and cooperation
    - Women, communicating and working
    - Women, information and communication
      technology use
    - Women and virtualisation of everyday life
    - Women, connecting and being connected
    - Women, ethics and mediation
    - Women, technology, learning and improvisation
    - Women, knowledge, knowing and action

Due date: September 30th, 2004

Format: 20 pages, double spaced, MLA style citations.

Additional information: 1) 200-word bio, 2) full name, and 3) contact
information, including e-mail, address, and phone number.

Please, send electronic submissions (MSWord or RTF) to both editors:

Hannakaisa IsomŠki, PhD
Professor
Department of Reseach methodology
University of Lapland
P.O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
hannakaisa.isomaki@ulapland.fi

and

Heidi Strengell, PhD, EdD
Director
Language Center
University of Lapland
P. O. BOX 122
96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
heidi.strengell@ulapland.fi or
heidi.strengell@pp.inet.fi

Requests for further information (including topics) should be directed to the
editors: Hannakaisa IsomŠki and Heidi Strengell.